Fox News’ Douglas Kennedy Arrested After Maternity Ward Altercation

Fox News correspondent Douglas Kennedy has been arrested after a scuffle with nurses in the maternity ward of the hospital where his wife recently gave birth. Apparently, Kennedy insisted on taking his newborn son “for a walk” despite being told the infant could not leave the ward. Kennedy has been charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of a child. Sworn testimony from one of the nurses says Kennedy kicked her in the pelvis and knocked her to the floor when she attempted to stop the baby's head from shaking during the confrontation - presumably because of the unsafe way in which Kennedy was holding the child. Although surveillance video does not show Kennedy kicking the nurse, she can be seen falling backward in a motion that seems to support her claim. So how is Fox News dealing with this? By referring to Kennedy in a FoxNews.com article merely as “Robert F. Kennedy’s son” in one instance. In another, Fox News chief Roger Ailes called Kennedy “the definition of a great father.”

You’d think such an injustice done to this “great father” would be grounds for major Fox News attention. But a search of FoxNews.com found only the one “RFK’s son” report.

I think it has legs, Ellen… it went basically viral online because Kennedy’s being such a jackass about the whole deal. He hurled every insult he could at the nurses in his statement, and his lawyer called them “Money grabbing opportunists,” which has the inequality crowd seeing red.

I still don’t have any confirmation on Haydock’s status, but the rumours about his potential fate are still going strong. he made the hospital look both corrupt and incompetent with his stunt to protect “Ol’ Dougie”, and it sparked a few debates about how hospitals are run. Even without confirmation, I find it really easy to believe they’d put him up for review, at the very least.

And regarding how Fox News is covering it- the coverage I’ve seen, most of them seem to be downplaying it. They want the nurses to be the bad guys, if they can’t do it, their back-up plan is apparently to throw him under the bus, hurling the word “Kennedy” as fast as they can and hope their viewers forget the part where he’s a Fox News employee.

Conservative media will not touch this Kennedy scandal with a ten-foot pole for fear of angering Ruthless Rupy. Any conservative media attacking a Fox “News” reporter will most likely be banned from the network, and High End Hannocchio’s show.

I have not heard an explanation why he was so insistant on taking the baby for a “walk.” Sounds very suspicious. Until the child had been discharged he could not leave the floor for any reason or with anyone, not even his parents. Hospitals have very stringent rules concerning the safety of newborns for a reason. The nursery staff had no evidence to indicate that the father was not trying to kidnap his own child. Who’s to say he and the baby’s mother weren’t having a dispute, or any number of reasons he would want to take the child by force.

This story is mutating so fast that it takes all of 3 minutes for an entry on it to become obsolete. Seriously.

The shortest possible version of the current version is that Kennedy and his friend Dr. Haydock have both met success with demonizing the nurses and the hospital.

Unconfirmed at the time of this post reports say that Haydock could be handed his walking papers this week for how bad he made the hospital look. If true, it’s because the board’s pretty much unanymous in wanting him gone.

I’ve also seen posts with the (*) disclaiming they’re still being validated saying some of the hospital staff wants to sue both men for defamation because of stories they told the press about the nurses and people who responded after it escelated.

And David: Any pity I had for him on your case went out the window when he tried to give a ward dressed 3 day-old prolonged exposure to 38 degrees. I would have taken the baby from him, too.

I will have to side with him somewhat on this. It is subjet to change after more facts are reported. But is really easy to go off the handle in the US baby wards. Babies being taken from their mother right after birth is not something humans have done before the 1950s It is not the natural or the human way to treat new borns. A father can end have some of the same deep routed feelings

What’s truly amazing about the mention of Doug’s being “RFK’s son” is that his Fox “biography” makes NO mention of his parentage. You don’t suppose that FoxNoise is trying to cover up something, do you?